TikTok founder Zhang Yiming has topped China’s rich list for the first time, according to Shanghai-based Hurun magazine, which put his fortune at 49.3 billion dollars. Zhang, 41, belongs to the new generation of Chinese business people who are more internationally focused than their predecessors, according to Hurun. TikTok owner ByteDance, also founded by Zhang,…
On the night of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the New York Times introduced the “needle,” a data visualization reminiscent of a car’s speedometer. This tool aimed to inform readers about the potential implications of early vote counts on the final outcome. As election night unfolded, millions of Americans watched the needle with a mix…
The Washington Post is experiencing a significant wave of cancellations from its digital subscribers and a spate of resignations from its columnists, a backlash stemming from owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to prevent the endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidential election. According to sources within the paper, over 200,000 subscribers had cancelled their…
US President Joe Biden has voted early in the presidential election, with just about a week to go before polling day. The president, who dropped his re-election bid in July, has appeared at an early voting site in his home state of Delaware where he was seen waiting in a queue that extended outside the…
Former US President and candidate of the Republican Party in the November 5 US presidential election Donald Trump, has come under intense criticism from his Democratic Party rival, Kamala Harris over a slur comment made by a comedian against Puerto Rico at his campaign rally on Sunday. There has been widespread condemnation from both Republicans…
Eight days before the election, Trump heads to Georgia, while Harris will try to energise voters in Michigan that include an Arab American and Muslim population concerned about Israel’s war on Gaza. With seven days to go to the election, former President Donald Trump hosted a rally at Madison Square Garden in his hometown of…
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday arrived in Rabat on a three-day official visit to the Kingdom of Morocco. The French president was received by the King of Moroccan, Muhammed VI and his Crown Prince, Moulay El Hassan, Prince Moulay Rachid and Princesses Lalla Khadija and Lalla Meryem. Macron on the other hand was accompanied…
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Land Transport, Sen. Adamu Aliero, says the African Development Bank has released $350 million to the Federal Govemment for construction of a rail line from Kano to Maradi. Aliero disclosed this during an oversight visit of the committee to the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) on Monday in Lagos. He added…
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has donated more than 1,662 educational digital contents to the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the donation was done through Kim Pankyu, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Nigeria. The materials were handed over on Monday in Abuja at a…
The Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) is set to take.pace at the AFRIFF HUB, The Palms, Oniru in Lagos State. The event organisers, in a statement on Monday in Abuja by AFRIFF Founder, Chioma Ude, would be held between Nov. 3 and Nov. 9. Ude, said that the festival’s opening night would feature ‘Headless’, a…
